RewriteRule question

I've got a bunch of directories like
http://www.example.com/mem_AAA/mem_AAA.htm, where AAA is a member's
initials. I'm trying to redirect all traffic to these directories to
their new location: http://www.example.com/members/mem_AAA/mem_AAA.htm

So I've tried countless combinations of RewriteCond and RewriteRule,
and none work. Here's the latest:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} \.example\.com
RewriteRule /mem_(.*)/mem_(.*).htm /members/mem_$1/mem_$2.htm [R=301,L]


Any ideas?

I also tried the following, but no luck:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^/mem_(.*)/mem_(.*) /members/mem_$1/mem_$2 [R=301,L]

dave_nul@hotmail.com wrote:
> I also tried the following, but no luck:
>
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$
> RewriteRule ^/mem_(.*)/mem_(.*) ]

Not sure, but maybe because you did'nt specify the end of the rule ?
Anyway, i'm not able to test this here, but the following should work:

RewriteRule ^mem_[a-z]/mem_[a-z]\.htm$ members/mem_$1/mem_$2\.htm
[R=301,L]
should work AFAIK ...

If initals are always 3 characters you could replace [a-z] with
[a-z]{3}
or [a-z]{1,3} to have a variable length between 1 and 3.
Be sure to escape the dot in your file extension.

Frizzle.